Bigot Point:

"homosexuality is a choice."

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Scientific Study's have proven that homosexuality is not a choice. Better yet all it should take to end this "argument" is one homosexual person, if only i had access to a homosexual, where does one find such a beast?...

Wait i do, i am one of those, so i ask myself if being gay is a choice and the answer is flat out no. Being homosexual is not a choice for me. No gay person i have spoken to has ever said it was a choice. And that's all it takes, one homosexual telling you it wasn't/ isn't a choice for them, that is enough to make your "argument" invalid.
If you don't believe me ask yourself. Was your sexuality a choice? Did you choose which gender you are capable of being attracted to or falling in love with?

Now homophobes have been told being gay isn't a choice for years, and yet they still lie, i hope no one who says that is a christian because there is that "little" commandment about committing falsehoods.

Manny years ago i was watching a talk show, i think it was the Ricki Lake Show. Stop judging me! Anyway, so this episode was the homophobes Vs the gays. They had a lot of "religious" people on the pro-bigotry side. One guy on the pro-homophobia side, stands up and says;

"Being gay is a choice! We all are attracted to the same sex, but we are strong enough to fight those urges." (or words to that effect).

One of the panelists pointed out rightly that feeling that way meant the guy was probably bisexual and not actually straight.
Now i have seen this repeated a few times over the years. It seems that a lot of homophobes are fighting their own internal battles, ether they are bisexual and only "choose" to act on feeling for the opposite sex. Or they are gay and "choose" not to act on their natural urges.
Know i have noting against anyone who doesn't want to love who nature designed them to, but i do have a problem if they feel they need to act this way due to indoctrination or ignorance. I have a greater problem if they demand that i should act that way too.

I think they muddy the water, they claim that homosexuality is a choice because they are "choosing" not to physically act upon their natural impulses. Or that somehow not acting upon ones natural sexuality means they have changed who they are. But they fail to realize that it is the fact that they have these impulses that make them homosexual.

As an example, i haven't had sex in months, (since my breakup), but that doesn't make me straight. Hell, i could force myself to have sex with a woman, (shudder) and that still wouldn't make me any straighter.

Also if being gay is a choice then i challenge any bigot to honestly change their sexual orientation. Whats the problem, they can always just change back right?

I am writing this to address some of the catch phrases and fallacies that bigots use to oppose equality. I intend to link to these instead of having to rehash the same BS every time. Also i hope that those searching might read it and choose to further educate themselves by doing their own research.
This post also applies when bigots use language such as "lifestyle", and "sexual preference". As terms like this are used to imply our sexuality is a choice.

The "argument" that homosexuality is a choice gets used as some kind of " trump card". I don't really understand why though, if homosexuality was a choice, that wouldn't mean we should make homosexuality illegal or remove rights from homosexuals.
Why would we punish something that does no harm, homosexuality is simply the ability to romantically love a member of the same sex. And homosexual love making between two consenting adults doesn't seem like a problem. The acts performed in homosexual sex are performed by straight couples all the time and there is no campaigning against that.
Though i am sure that homosexuals are just the tip of the iceberg for the bigots.

Children need both a biological Mother and Father.

"Same sex marriage isn't biblical marriage."

"Same-Sex marriage isn't Traditional Marriage"

"Homosexuality is Unnatural"

"Marriage Equality threatens religious freedom"

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